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Groundbreaking ceremony at Maine Veterans Home Augusta

Small house-style memory care at Maine Veterans’ Homes – Augusta

by Sarah Wissler
Landscape Architecture, Memory Care, Press, Projects, Under Construction
August 2, 2019

Following the official groundbreaking on the new Maine Veterans’ Homes – Augusta facility, work on the small house memory care model is now underway. The new home, scheduled for completion in 2021, will offer assisted living, long term care and memory care to Maine’s veterans and eligible family members. “The small house model that MVH is embracing for our veterans is really a unique opportunity,” said Deb Fournier, chief operations officer of Maine Veterans’ Homes. “It will be the first of...

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IIDA Award Winner: Best in State

IIDA Award Winner

by Admin
Awards, Team News
March 20, 2019

Gawron Turgeon Architects, P.C. is excited to share that we were announced as an IIDA award winner at the association's 12th Annual New England 2019 Design Awards. We were selected as "Best In State" in the Senior Living category for The Mooring On Foreside, which has won a number of awards since its completion. Deirdre Pio, our Director of Interior Design, attended the awards event in Boston and had the pleasure of representing the Gawron Turgeon Architects team to accept this award. The...

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blog - winter construction Falmouth House
blog - winter construction Falmouth House
blog - winter construction Falmouth House

Winter progress for Falmouth House Expansion

by Admin
Architecture, Interior Design, Senior Living, Under Construction
January 31, 2019

OceanView at Falmouth is expanding its Falmouth House with a renovation and addition to two assisted living wings, updates to many of the common interior spaces and a major overhaul of the commercial kitchen. Designed by Gawron Turgeon Architects, P.C., construction progresses on schedule, despite the winter conditions. JBW Construction is taking advantage of cold, but clear, days to continue steel erection under the coordination of Benchmark Construction. Temporary plastic tenting enables the crew to work in slightly more comfortable conditions!...

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blog image - Schooner estates
blog image - Schooner estates
blog image - Schooner estates

Winter construction on Schooner Estates Memory Care

by Admin
Under Construction
January 22, 2019

Construction in Maine during the winter poses a few challenges. The recent cold snap means that to keep on schedule, construction crews must innovate to overcome the challenge of frozen ground. For the Schooner Estates Senior Living Community in Auburn, ME, Landry/French Construction has built a temporary tented structure around the CMU elevator shaft so the masonry is protected and remains warm. They are blanketing and heating the interior of the foundation to thaw out the ground frost—36” deep in some...

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Design Excursion to Kwalu

by Admin
Client News, Interior Design, Senior Living, Team News
November 16, 2018

Gawron Turgeon Architects' interior designers, Mary Turgeon and Rachel Redfearn, recently traveled with our partners at the Maine Veterans' Homes to visit the Kwalu showroom in Atlanta, Georgia. Kwalu specializes in designing beautiful and durable furniture for senior living and healthcare facilities. Design excursions like this are incredibly useful for enabling clients to participate in the selection of furniture for the spaces we design. Kwalu were wonderful hosts and our team left Atlanta feeling inspired by the furniture options for this project—a...

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2018 Preservation Award for Plummer School

by Admin
Awards, Senior Living
October 3, 2018

Gawron Turgeon Architects, P.C. is proud to have received a 2018 Preservation Honor Award by Greater Portland Landmarks "for the adaptive reuse of the 1931 Samson D. Plummer School in Falmouth." For more information about why GTA and this project were selected, please visit the Greater Portland Landmarks website. This award is in addition to the Maine Preservation 2017 Honor Award, and a 2014 MEREDA Top Notable Project Award....

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The Mooring on Foreside - Small house concept

News about our award-winning memory care design

by Admin
Architecture, Awards, Memory Care, Senior Living
July 20, 2018

The Mooring on Foreside—a project that is dear to us for so many reasons—receives a great write-up in Senior Living News. The Mooring's founder and principle, Lynn Peel, had a strong vision that this would be a memory care home with a difference; that it would look and feel like a real home with a small footprint and an intimate setting, in turn enabling individualized care for each and every resident. Rebecca Dillon was Gawron Turgeon's lead architect for this project, and...

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Schooner Estates retirement community expansion

by Admin
Architecture, Interior Design, Senior Living
April 30, 2018

Gawron Turgeon Architects is designing a major expansion for the Schooner Estates retirement community in Auburn, ME. This $12 million expansion will provide a new, state-of-the-art 66-unit assisted living and memory care home that is organized into three small homes, each with a comfortable and familiar design that will promote the residents’ independence and individuality. Read more about this project in a recent MaineBiz article....

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Affordable housing for seniors in Yarmouth, ME

by Admin
Architecture, Senior Living
April 30, 2018

Designed by Gawron Turgeon Architects in 2016, Bartlett Woods in Yarmouth, ME is a 28-unit affordable housing apartment complex with one- and two-bedroom apartments for seniors. Designed with sustainability in mind, Bartlett Woods includes photovoltaic solar panels and a tight building envelope. Co-owned and co-developed by Yarmouth Senior Housing and Avesta Housing, construction was completed by Bowman Constructors in the fall of 2017. With a grand opening taking place this week, Bartlett Woods is now open! Read more about this project in a...

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